What Obama will see when he arrives in India

No toilets!

The Mumbai slum of Rafiq Nagar has no clean water for its shacks made of ripped tarp and bamboo.

No garbage pickup along the rocky, pocked earth that serves as a road.

No power except from haphazard cables strung overhead illegally.

And not a single toilet or latrine for its 10,000 people.

Yet nearly every destitute family in the slum has a cell phone.

Some have three.

Image: A boy talks on a cell phone at the Rafiq Nagar slum in Mumbai.

Text and Images: AP (Any unauthorised reproduction is strictly prohibited)

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